How to pitch a guest article

We’ve been getting a large number of requests lately to run guest articles in return for commercial text links. We do not allow paid text links in our posts. If there’s a link in the article, it better be of value to our readers, not a commercial. If you want to buy an ad, please buy a display ad.

However, we do allow article authors to include links back to their sites. There is no charge for this. In fact, we never charge to run articles. If something is of value to our readers, we will run it.

Article topics

Hypergrid Business is, as the title suggests, a publication interested in business in the metaverse.

Some of the areas we typically cover include:

Marketing, sales, promotion, customer loyalty, and other related topics as they pertain to virtual goods or virtual worlds

Management advice about selecting a team, choosing a business model, staying ahead of competitors, and finding funding for startup virtual world projects

Legal advice about contracts with partners, vendors, and content providers and about copyright infringement for virtual content creators and virtual world managers

Technology advice about selecting, installing, and managing a virtual platform for small groups, non-profits, educational institutions, companies, and commercial world operators

Advice for content creators about in-world building and scripting, and about creating textures and 3D mesh models for import into virtual environments

The platforms we typically cover include:

OpenSim, realXtend, AuroraSim, OpenWonderland, OpenQwaq, and other open source virtual world platforms

Second Life, Blue Mars, Cloud Party, and other consumer-oriented virtual worlds in so far as they have business, non-profit or educational applications

Hypergrid Business staff are not available for writing ghost articles on behalf of third parties.

However, we work with a number of freelance writers who have informed us that they’ll be more than happy to give up their byline in return for some spending cash. If you would like a referral to one of these writers — or to become one of the freelancers we recommend — please contact us.

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